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Labyrinth Der Puppen (2013)

by S.L. Grey(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

386552253X (ISBN13: 9783865522535)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Festa Verlag

series

Downside

review 1: First off, this book reminded me of nothing so much as that one episode of the TV show Are You Afraid of the Dark where a kid gets trapped in a pinball machine that resembles a horror version of his local mall. I thought this book might work better as a TV show--the plot was interesting and kept me reading, but it was very episodic, the descriptions weren't very engaging, and the two characters had very similar voices. Interesting parts were skimmed over, and there was a lot of telling instead of showing. The charcters' motivations weren't always well explored, and when the ending came it was expected, but also seemed somehow abrupt, because the actions leading to the ending weren't very well explained. As the reader you get hints of the sinister happenings at work in this... more mall, but the idea of a "game" isn't fully explored. The unanswered questions aren't creepy because they aren't earned. I really wish the authors had spent more time on this, because with better description, more developed characters, and a greater exploration of what the mall is all about, it would have been a great horror novel.
review 2: The Mall was creepy and kept me interested throughout, the characters Rhoda and Daniel had a constant style in their character that made it easy to differentiate them from one another. I liked the twists but would have liked some of the Afrikaan language to be translated right away as it left me a bit confused. I am also not a huge fan of the constant swearing although I knew it was necessary for the persona's of each character. less

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